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So we should spend billions that is going to cut travel time by only 90 minutes and only going 110 mph. Again how is this high speed rail??? I can get to St Louis in 1 1/2 by air..
1 posted on 09/17/2010 3:58:29 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: KevinDavis

You’ll be a lot lighter with all that heavy privately earned money weighing you down.


2 posted on 09/17/2010 3:59:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: KevinDavis

The plane ticket would be cheaper, too. I can fly from Columbus to Chicago for $39 each way if I plan it right.


3 posted on 09/17/2010 4:05:40 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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Heck! I can cruise at 110 in my 20 year old Lexus! And be really comfortable, and listen to music blastin’, snack, stop for a good lunch, and enjoy myself! And it would cost less than the train.
Of course I’d probably end up in jail,,,,,,,,,,,,


4 posted on 09/17/2010 4:06:57 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: KevinDavis

You know there will be cost overruns and we’ll end up footing the bill for daily operations like we do AmTrak. And has anyone done a cost analysis? How will it impact the airline industry? Will the gov’t seize land to do this? Will we have our taxes increase to subsidize this? If there was a real need for it, the market would have stepped in.

We’re in the middle of a bad recession and these idiots want to create another possible boondoggle???


5 posted on 09/17/2010 4:11:24 PM PDT by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Combat Economist.)
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To: KevinDavis

What a frickin’ waste of money. How about spending the money on better roads and more of them?


6 posted on 09/17/2010 4:11:48 PM PDT by calex59
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To: KevinDavis

110mph is a local train in Europe.


8 posted on 09/17/2010 4:35:20 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: KevinDavis

Its so funny. There was an ‘Interurban’ along the old route 66 back in the 30’s and 40’s. It went BROKE!!!. Obama (Keynes) strikes again.


9 posted on 09/17/2010 4:36:10 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: KevinDavis

All that money for up to a 30mph increase in the top speed of a regular train?

Somebody is nuts.


10 posted on 09/17/2010 4:45:35 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Willie Green

Choo choo ping.


11 posted on 09/17/2010 5:36:27 PM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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